At my study, we are required to write a POP, or personal development plan each period (four times a year). In this plan we write what we want to learn and what we plan on doing that period. It’s always appreciated if this plan is personalised. That’s why I’ve, for the past three periods, drawn a cartoonified version of myself for the cover of my POP. Here’s what I made:
As you can see, none of them are very complicated or detailed. This wasn’t my intention: they were meant as a spoof of myself, and what I was doing that period. In the first drawing, I’d done lots of tablet drawings, so I pictured that. The second drawing, I was working with video a lot. The third one, I spent a lot of time working by myself on my drawing.
As you can see, the first drawing’s a lot less detailed. Originally, I’d intended to make the third one a more realistic drawing, so that there would be a nice line of cartoon to realism over the year, but I ran out of time for the last one… I still think it looks better (or at least more realistic) than the first two, but it wasn’t what I’d intended. As I’ve had a bit more time on my hands recently, I decided to make that last drawing anyway.
(click for original size)
This is what I came up with. It’s a paintover of a photograph of myself, what some people would call cheating, but it was never my intention to make an actual piece of art out of this. I wanted to practise the technique of digital painting. I learned a lot doing this, and I think it looks good in the end, so I’m happy with the result!
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